President Joe Biden said he planned to nominate five new trial court judges in four states with Republican senators, whose support the White House has increasingly sought as it pushes to fill vacancies in their home states.
The nominees include the Democratic president’s second and third in Texas, Ernesto Gonzalez and Leon Schydlower, who would serve as district court judges in the state’s Western District. Other nominees hail from Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming. Read more.
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San Francisco police Sergeant David Radford contacted Tesla in May 2020 with a request on a case: Could the automaker provide data on an alleged stalker’s remote access to a vehicle?
According to a police report, a woman had told police that her abusive husband, in violation of a restraining order, was stalking and harassing her using the technology in their 2016 Tesla Model X.
Cases of technology-enabled stalking involving cars are emerging as automakers add ever-more-sophisticated features, such as location tracking and remote control of functions such as locking doors or honking the horn, according to interviews
with divorce lawyers, private investigators and anti-domestic-violence advocates. Read more on the complex considerations these technologies pose for auto companies and law enforcement.
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Additional writing by Renuka Rath.
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